i have no clue but i have heard that if the spring gets weak you get lower
pressure. so a stiffer spring might help. mine will probably get lost b4 i ever
get the chance to use it in the future.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>
To: "mitch vamos" <mitchvamos@operamail.com>, "Brian Yarborough"
<bytr6@frontiernet.net>, "6-pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Low oil pressure
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:26:51 -0400
>
> Doesn't this just provide some increase in maximum oil pressure
> acting on the fiter? As far as I know, the spring/ball affair is
> not a pressure regulator, it is a bypass. The bypass comes into
> play only when the filter is so plugged up that the engine begins
> to starve for oil. This is seen as a huge increase in pressure
> between the pump and the filter. When this condition arises, the
> bypass opens and lets unfiltered oil into the engine rather than
> having the works running without lubrication. Increasing the spring
> strength has no impact if the pump or bearings are worn; it only
> allows the pump to work at higher pressure pushing oil through a
> dirty filter. It also helps in cold weather when cold thick oil
> can't flow through the filter fast enough to maintain pressure in
> the passages.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of mitch vamos
> Sent: April 28, 2005 8:37 PM
> To: Brian Yarborough; 6-pack
> Subject: Re: Low oil pressure
>
>
> Anyone with an older engine tried this? I have one in the garage
> but have good pressure and don't need it but i'd try it if i didn't
> or was using one of the oilers for the rockers. Moss sells the
> spring.
>
> 329-355 $2.95
> SPRING, heavy
> Note: Provides some increase in oil pressure.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Yarborough" <bytr6@frontiernet.net>
> To: "6-pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Low oil pressure
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:15:47 -0400
>
> >
> > Hi all;
> >
> > I've been following the low oil pressure subject avidly. My '76 has about
> > 12# @ hot idle, 50 # @ speed.
> > So, I should check oil pressure sender, set screw on rockers, then check the
> > oil pump specs?
> >
> >
> > Brian Yarborough
> > 1976 TR-6
> > CF55886UO
>
> --
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